Deepening its existing relationship with Vizient has enabled Memphis-based Baptist Memorial Health Care—a 22-hospital healthcare system in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas—to develop a strategic partnership, improving patient outcomes and operations while realizing workforce, pharmacy, supply chain and purchased services savings. Initially, Baptist relied on Vizient solely for supply-chain savings and group purchasing organization (GPO) services. In 2018 after Vizient demonstrated the ability to create and implement a financial improvement roadmap impacting care delivery, quality, cost and revenue to Baptist leadership, the companies signed an initial two-year total performance management (TPM) agreement.

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